Federal Appeals Court Nixes Trump’s Proposed Rollback of DACA

Federal Appeals Court Nixes Trump’s Proposed Rollback of DACA
A DACA and TPS (Temporary protected status) rally outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in New York on Jan. 7, 2019. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
contributor
|Updated:

A second federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration from rescinding former President Barack Obama’s controversial, unilaterally imposed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, accepting challengers’ unusual argument that in this case, a president cannot undo a predecessor’s executive action.

The new decision, and other court rulings on the legality of DACA, are expected to head to the Supreme Court.